[Libguestfs] Plans for changing libguestfs appliance building

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 07:21:12PM +0800, Jin Xin Zheng wrote:
> In fact when I saw this the first thing came up to my head was that our
> modified source for doing gcov -- we could collect the .gcda files in
> the build directory after libguestfs was invoked. But the guestfsd which
> runs inside the appliance produces the .gcda files in the temp ramfs.

I guess it writes it into / (ie. guestfsd's current directory which is
pretty much always root)?

> We have made a pretty lot of effort in order to tar-out these files
> before the subprocess was killed.

We have/had the same problem capturing core files too ...

Rich.

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